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RED MIKE EDSON: MARINE RAIDER: In 1942, the key to winning the war in the Pacific was the strategic island of Guadalcanal, and the key to holding that indispensable island was a small band of "experimental" guerrilla fighters under the command of Col. Merritt "Red Mike" Edson. A "Marine's Marine," Edson invented a new kind of high-mobility warfare that helped win some of America's earliest ground victories in the Pacific arena. ROY GEIGER: FLYING LEATHERNECKS: Renowned as a man who inspired other men to greatness, Marine General Roy Geiger gained a reputation as an air combat leader when he rallied his outgunned, out-numbered Cactus Air Force against waves of Japanese Zeroes on Guadalcanal. The unheralded hero of battles from Guam to Okinawa, he was the only aviator of any service to command a U.S. field army. RANGERS IN KOREA: BEHIND THE ENEMY: Earning their WWII battle stripes in combat zones from Burma to Normandy, the U.S. Army Rangers of the post-war era were trained especially for infiltration behind.

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